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Re: Pentesting vs Network Security Admin
Crazy you said this because I was just going to make a post on the same thing. I'm very interested in offensive security/red team/pentesting work as well. With that being said, I'm not sure what the job market is like for that kind of work. I'm not sure what the growth looks like that for a pentester. Is generally junior… -
Re: Pentesting vs Network Security Admin
Depends on the organisation, but the title Network security is usually given to people who manage firewalls, proxies, etc...even Active directory in some places so depends. Pentesting is a niche within Security, but be mindful that being a Pentester will not make a Security Architect who design a full security solution for… -
Pentesting vs Network Security Admin
Considering two paths to go down in the long run: One would be red team/pentesting work, and eventually some sort of higher level managerial role for which I'd do something like OSCP and then CISSP. The other would be network security administration where I could work with Cisco security appliances, and I'd do CCNP Sec and… -
Re: Pentesting vs Network Security Admin
I'd love to get into pentesting but to get into the really good positions, it's highly competitive and the stuff that the top practitioners know and can do is pretty mind boggling. I read through a Reddit AMA that a company did, which was focused mainly on appsec, but also other pentest areas, and the stuff just blew my… -
Re: Pentesting vs Network Security Admin
@Bluecodex I think my main goal is just to find something I can enjoy doing on some level. My reservation with pentesting is I'm afraid I'll spend 14 hours a day staring at a command line, doing things like running nmap scans. It's ironic you mention the Hollywood glamour, because I have this image of it being tedious. But… -
Re: Pentesting vs Network Security Admin
Our dilemmas may be a little different as your mention of network defense and said description seems a lot like blue team work. I already figured out blue team work doesn't interest me. Network security administration, on the other hand, deals more with administering and configuring security appliances, and doesn't deal as…
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